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New research has found that delivering a stronger form of the tuberculosis vaccine directly to the lungs can help generate protective immune cells to help fight the disease. The research is published in the journal Mucosal ...
Jul 17, 2025
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Tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. By 1900, TB—which usually attacks the lungs but can affect almost any part of the body—had killed one in seven people who ...
Jul 16, 2025
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A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling it can cause in babies and toddlers. But the vaccine doesn't prevent adults from developing the ...
Jul 14, 2025
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More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first immunotherapy against cancer. And it is still used today to treat early-stage bladder cancer.
May 29, 2025
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There is no highly effective vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), which remains an infection of global concern. Charles Kyriakos Vorkas, MD, an infectious diseases physician-scientist at the Renaissance School of Medicine (RSOM) ...
May 23, 2025
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Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) revaccination is not efficacious for preventing sustained Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, defined by sustained QuantiFERON-TB (QFT) test conversion, according to a study published in the ...
May 12, 2025
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A Broward County high school has confirmed an active case of tuberculosis, one of the deadliest, but treatable, infectious diseases in the world.
May 1, 2025
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Two doses of a simple tuberculosis vaccination after surgery helps the immune system fight cancer cells and could greatly improve patient outcomes for the most common type of bladder cancer, according to a pilot study of ...
Mar 22, 2025
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Not only does our body change with age, but so does our immune system. A recent study led by the Center for Individualized Infection Medicine (CiiM) shows exactly how immune cells age and how infections and vaccinations can ...
Mar 19, 2025
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Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ice age. Today, the disease—passed from those who are actively sick to others through airborne ...
Mar 14, 2025
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